As one of the most mentally rigorous designers working in fashion, Yohji Yamamoto creates garments that can be intellectual, sometimes difficult, yet always beautiful. Yohjiâs free-spirited world is explored through over 30 years of photographs and interviews here via i-D magazineâs archives. Through these pictures you can see the adoration Yamamoto has for women and the female form, the painful process of creating anti-fashion through fashion and how his timeless utilitarian designs can be both avant-garde and classic at once.

An industry rebel who plays by his own rules, Benedikt Taschen has taken niche publishing to new heights. Insistent on approving every title sold under the Taschen name, the German publisher prides himself on producing quality works-irrespective of cost-that have an identity and soul.